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DMG Pulled Late-80s Rave Spirit Back into the Bloodstream with ‘Live the Dream’

Posted on 11 June 2026

Euphoria is in the house after DMG dropped their latest instant club classic, Live the Dream, a trancey invitation to refuse limitations and push your desire to the limits. The glitchy breakbeats syncopate their way into your bloodstream, along with an intravenous shot of adrenaline, pulling the body straight back to the sweat, circuitry and collective abandon of acid house’s most mythic corners.

Blackburn-born and Scotland-based, DMG built Live the Dream from a fascination with the late-80s Blackburn rave scene, where post-industrial surroundings became an unlikely ignition point for one of the UK’s most radical underground movements. That historical voltage runs through the single without turning it into a museum piece. Instead, found footage, period electronic fragments and rave-memory residue are folded into a track that sparks in the way only spiritually switched-on sound can.

There is a real charge in the way DMG questions nostalgia itself: who gets to feel connected to a scene, who gets to retell its folklore, and how absence can still become a form of belonging. Live the Dream understands rave culture as mythology, social rupture, sanctuary and supernatural release all at once. By the time the beat has locked into full-body command, the track has become proof that collective euphoria still has teeth.

Live the Dream is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Rayrick’s ‘Orbit’ Sends Tenderness Through Cosmically Spaced Electronica and Neon New Wave Desire

Posted on 5 June 2026

On June 5th, Rayrick launched his most intimately interstellar release yet with Orbit. With his unique talent in bringing tenderness into expansive sound design, the Taiwan-born, NYC-based electronica artist has been making all the right waves since his debut; he approaches retro-futurist soundscapes with reverence for past and present, keeping the soul of 80s synth pop alive while exhibiting how attuned he is to the fervour that falls over contemporary dancefloors.

Passion finds its propulsion through the strobing synths, snares, cosmically spacious motifs and vocals, delivered by a guest vocalist whose emotive depth rivals the Grand Canyon, pulling you into a black hole of sticky-sweet progressive pop romanticism glossed with the neon strobe lights of new wave synth pop. Orbit carries melodic dubstep, bass, and progressive house through a clean-lined, emotionally heightened production style that’s built for headphones and rooms where bodies move under ultraviolet light.

As a producer, DJ, and audio engineer, Rayrick brought his technical chops to the single without sterilising its sentiment. His attention to structure, pacing, and atmosphere gives Orbit its sense of lift, letting the track feel expansive, intimate, and ready for late-night surrender.

Orbit is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

BOOTHED Interview: From Disco Roots to Festival-Facing House and Viral Club Momentum

Posted on 27 May 2026

Across club floors, festival clips, social feeds and international playlists, BOOTHED has been building the kind of momentum that makes industry ears snap towards the speaker. With more than 24 million cumulative streams across DSPs, over 80 million combined short-form video views, releases through Protocol Recordings, Spinnin’ Records, Box of Cats and Another Rhythm, plus support from Martin Garrix, Nicky Romero, Fedde Le Grand and Don Diablo, the project is moving with serious force. In this interview, BOOTHED reflects on the viral lift around his official Get Down On It sample, the club reach of Body Wanna Rave, Rave Tonight and Sexy Sturdy, the pull of 70s and 80s disco and funk, and the next phase of his modern house and EDM sound.

The last two years have moved at serious speed for you, with your sound, audience, and industry support all expanding fast. When did you first feel things starting to shift?

I think the biggest shift happened when I started seeing the music travel beyond my immediate circle and local environments. At first, you are just making music because you love it, but over time I began noticing more international support, more engagement online, DJs playing the tracks, labels becoming interested, and people connecting with the project in different countries. That was probably the moment where I realised things were starting to evolve into something much bigger and more professional.

Your official sample of Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It became a massive moment, especially with the original band giving it approval. What did that co-sign mean to you personally?

Honestly, it meant a lot to me. Kool & The Gang are legends, and their music has influenced generations of artists, including myself. Having their approval gave me confidence in the direction I was taking creatively. It also showed me that combining classic influences with modern electronic production can create something that connects across different audiences and generations.

That release went viral, hit international charts, and brought new industry people into your orbit. How did it change the way you saw your own potential as an artist?

It definitely changed my perspective. Before that, I always believed in the project, but seeing the release reach international charts and generate that level of attention made me realise the music could genuinely compete on a much bigger scale. It also opened new conversations with labels, DJs and industry people, which helped me understand that the project was moving into a new phase professionally.

Body Wanna Rave and Rave Tonight have both gained serious momentum in the United States and found their way into festivals, clubs, and raves around the world. What has it felt like seeing those tracks travel so far?

It’s honestly surreal sometimes. Those tracks were created with pure club and rave energy in mind, so seeing people connect with them in completely different countries and environments has been really rewarding. Social media also played a huge role because it allowed the tracks to spread naturally through videos, clubs and festival content. Seeing people use the music in their own moments and experiences is probably one of the best feelings as an artist.

Sexy Sturdy landing on major Spotify editorial playlists, including Tech House Operator, feels like another big marker. How did you react when you saw that support coming through?

I was genuinely very happy because editorial playlist support is something that can really help push a record into new audiences. Tech House Operator is a respected playlist within the electronic music space, so being included there felt like another important step forward for the project. It also confirmed to me that the direction I’m currently exploring creatively is resonating within the scene.

Your sound pulls from 70s and 80s disco and funk, then drives that energy into modern house and EDM. What first drew you towards that mix of old-school groove and current club pressure?

I grew up listening to a lot of disco, funk and classic dance music through artists like Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool & The Gang. At the same time, I was also heavily inspired by modern electronic artists and festival culture. Over time, blending those two worlds started to feel very natural to me. I love groove and musicality, but I also love strong club energy, so combining those elements became a way of expressing both sides of my influences.

With multiple new tracks coming through international labels, how are you choosing what to release next, and what kind of energy are you trying to build across this year?

At the moment, I’m trying to focus on records that feel authentic to where I am creatively rather than simply chasing trends. I want the releases to feel connected whilst still exploring different energies, from more crossover disco-influenced tracks to darker and more club-focused records. This year is really about building consistency, strengthening the identity of the project, and continuing to grow both artistically and professionally.

Between the new collaborations, summer gigs, global traction, and fresh releases, what feels most exciting about where Boothed is heading right now?

I think the most exciting part is that the project still feels like it’s growing naturally. There are a lot of new opportunities opening up, more collaborations, more music, more live activity, but at the same time I still feel creatively motivated and inspired to push things further. It feels like I’m entering a very important phase where the foundations built over the years are starting to connect together in a much bigger way.

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Interview by Amelia Vandergast

TROUBLE staked their claim as brat pop supreme with their debut single, Bad Boy

Posted on 28 April 2026

The EDM pop duo, TROUBLE, which has a shot of becoming as iconic as Paris Hilton and Nicole Richey with their Y2K aesthetics and infectious attitude, anchored their debut floor-filler, Bad Boy, in siren-esque angst and an infallible recognition of their own self-worth; crashing in as this generation’s wave of aural feminism.

The four-to-the-floor beat, ferociously riling in all the right places vocals, and progressive unpredictability of the earworm never leaves you feeling that TROUBLE is just going through the motions; there’s a rare sense of authenticity in the urgency of Bad Boy; if you met TROUBLE backstage, you’d know exactly what to expect from the duo and their magnetically spiky sensibility if you met them backstage, and you also know that some poor wannabe lothario is still licking his wounds after inspiring this single.

Era-wise, Bad Boy, and its lacerating, playful fury, is impossible to pin down; EDM and pop aesthetics from the 90s and 00s take an intravenous shot into the anthem, which hits just as hard as Icona Pop and Charli XCX’s I Love It.

No fuckboy would stand a chance against these two, or anyone who decides to take note of the hell-hath-no-fury brat pop lyrics and build their own main character moments under the mentorship of the Nashville duo, Sofia Werner and Kyla Cusick.

Bad Boy is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

MODISTE Turned Synth-Pop into a Strobe-Lit Fever of Longing in Shadows

Posted on 27 April 2026

MODISTE injected the intensity back into synth-pop with their sophomore single, Shadows; a strobe-lit spell of longing, hunger, and surrender, which rejects the cloying trend of saccharine etherealism by adopting the visceral spellbinding veracity of Siouxsie Sioux while maintaining an irrefutable mainstream crossover appeal.

The Louisville trio pulled from the dark glamour of cold, cavernous 80s post-punk aesthetics and the seductive tension of 80s analogue pop to inject into the monolith of a production, all the while allowing the single to feel fiercely alive in the present, as though the track has been dragged from some midnight theatre of obsession and wired straight into the bloodstream.

In the same way that White Lies take the conventions of the darker, synth-heavy corners of aural history to write the future of alt-pop, MODISTE has a distinctly infectious way of drawing you into the thematic core of their evocatively heightened sound, helmed by Sydney Sleadd’s vocals, which command the centre with a magnetic intensity. There is desire in the delivery, but also steel, poise, and a cinematic sense of scale that turns the single into something far bigger than a stylish throwback. Beneath that, the synth work seethes and glows with tactile depth, while the guitar cuts through with surgical precision.

There is also a Lynchian streak running through Shadows, not as aesthetic window dressing, but as a feverish undercurrent in the pulsing swirl of longing, forbidden love, and surrender. Industrial tones tighten the tension, while the analogue instrumentation gives the single a living, breathing voltage. With Sydney Sleadd’s award-winning presence at the helm, Dennis Stein’s decades-deep synth obsession, and Kyle Stallings’ psych-punk and left-field electronics pedigree sharpening the edges, MODISTE feel built for obsession.

Shadows is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Eearroll fired up his flow in his synthesis of funk, synth pop and hip-hop, ‘Make Up Your Mind’

Posted on 27 April 2026

You can’t help but admire the bold experimentalism of Eearroll and the fearlessness with which he synthesises the funk-dripping aesthetics of Daft Punk, big hip-hop beats, even bigger bars, and dark 80s synth pop nostalgia in his recently released standout single, Make Up Your Mind.

The old school analogue synth line reverberations are kicked into overdrive, dousing the arrangement in visceral sparks of electricity; short of taking a toaster bath, there’s not much that comes close to this slick, unequivocally hard-hitter of a genre-fusion triumph. It’s an urban alt-electro tour de force that locks you into the fired-up flow of Eearroll, a Houston-based seventeen-year-old high school senior who keeps his creativity 100% DIY.

He’s been cutting his teeth and honing his signature sound since age 13; by 14, he stepped into the role of producer to take full control over his output. His work proves that age serves as a minor detail when creating massive, room-filling sound that connects instantly with listeners. Eearroll makes an inarguable case of how ingenuity easily overpowers the traditional notion of maturity.

Make Up Your Mind is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Mathias Julin created faultlines from feelings in his progressive house pop blockbuster, Could You Lie

Posted on 26 April 2026

Mathias Julin delivers hits of evocative pop that swell straight through the soul, and in Could You Lie, he pushes that gift into overdrive. The scale of the production spellbinds with surges of adrenaline crashing through the contours of a progressive house pop earworm, while the kinetic arrangement creates the perfect equilibrium between momentum and intimacy. By tempering the sleek production with nuanced nods to folk, he draws a sense of narrative-forward vulnerability into the augmented scintillation of this polished radio-ready hit.

It’s Avicii, Mumford & Sons, and Yungblud in the bloodstream, yet Mathias Julin channels those touchstones into something fully charged with his own emotional voltage. His vocal delivery carries visceral force and controlled feeling in equal measure, tracing over the fractures that form in a relationship and make it harder to traverse, while never diminishing the affection running through the wreckage.

At 20, the Danish singer-songwriter has already built serious momentum, drawing a fast-growing international audience with emotionally charged songwriting, intimate vocals, and cinematic production. Signed to Los Angeles label Broke Records, he is fast cementing his place in the modern pop pantheon.

Could You Lie is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Brachialis’ debut alt-electronica score, Wavetable, is a cascade of cerebrally visceral reverberation

Posted on 25 April 2026

Brachialis pulled the curtains back for a screening of IDM cinema with his debut release, Wavetable. Right from the intro, the pulsating reverberations in the kinetically hypnotic production take their hold with the poise and conviction of a viper strike, subduing you to the transcendence that oscillates around the resonance-rich release, which compels you to inch up the volume so you become totally immersed in the waves of vibration that take you to the ebb and flow of a higher plateau.

In the vein of his influences, Brachialis makes every motif in his experimental synthesis of sound a masterstroke, so that by the time you’ve reached the final crescendo, more of a breakbeat barricade than a wall of sound, you’ll be as aware of your physical reaction to Wavetable as much as your emotional reaction.

It’s the kind of release that anatomises under your skin; its cerebral intensity ensuring there’s little that remains dormant within you. With shades of Max Cooper, Rival Consoles, Thom Yorke, Nils Frahm and James Holden in the tension, detail and atmosphere, Wavetable is defined more by prestige than genre; it speaks in a frequency entirely of its own creation.

Drawing from an early foundation in orchestral film music, Brachialis approaches sound as something to shape and sculpt, refining broad sonic palettes into tense, deliberate movements through analogue and digital production.

Whether Brachialis veers further down the path of a soundtrack composer or an alt-electronica powerhouse in the vein of Spencer Brown, he’s got an illustrious career ahead of him and his viscerally lush sound.

Wavetable is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Nadine Hurley Conjured a Spellbound Storm of Dark Techno with ‘Dreamer’

Posted on 19 April 2026

Through spectral waves of reverb that quiescently find a way to oscillate under your skin, Witch House electronica artist and producer Nadine Hurley reaches the epitome of spellbinding in her latest conjuring, Dreamer.

After a disquietly cold, hauntingly mesmeric intro, Dreamer demands full lucidity as it seamlessly transitions into a lacerating blast of mechanised techno, synthesised with happy hardcore momentum that sends the phasers, basslines, and synth strobes haywire, proving its mettle as a heavyweight hard-hitter, which could easily punch down the early industrial pioneers. By juxtaposing the cavernously eerie echoes of witch house with the frenetic pulse-pounding intensity of happy hardcore-leaning techno, Hurley went harder and darker than most producers dare to, and it was deliciously filthy euphoria at its finest.

There is a feral precision in the way the Newcastle upon Tyne-based underground artist structured Dreamer, with every rupture in the arrangement tightening the vice around the senses. The witch house atmosphere seeps in with a narcotic chill before the track tears into the club with brute force, turning tension into release with relentless conviction. It’s the ultimate alt club floorfiller; Berghain would be lucky to have her.

Dreamer is now available to stream on all major platforms via this link. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

KingMessiaOne Turned Bass-Swathed Progressive House into Aural Cinema on ‘Let the Bass Fuck You Up’

Posted on 27 March 2026
The Queen of the fucking Universe by King Messiah One

Las Vegas’ KingMessiaOne is equal parts producer and orchestrator of aural cinema; the standout single, Let the Bass Fuck You Up, from the brand-new LP The Queen of the Fucking Universe, is a definitive blockbuster of bass-swathed progressive house.

As an out gay artist working from Las Vegas with a sound rooted in bass culture, queer freedom, and cinematic sonic architecture, KingMessiaOne has built a project that thrives outside neat genre confines, and this track proves exactly why.

With a tongue as sharp as his songwriting chops, there’s no avoiding a visceral reaction to the monolithic rush of euphoria. Between the builds and breaks, KingMessiaOne finds the perfect moments to inject heady volition into the production, ensuring that the ecstasy is spiked with a hedonic dose of abrasive emotive energy. Just the refrain of the title alone is enough to send an intravenous shot of adrenaline into your veins as you’re caught up in the kinetic hooks. It was a genius move on his part, and that’s exactly why he’s going to become bigger than sound. There’s a physicality to the release that hits before thought fully forms, which ties neatly into the wider world he’s been building since 2020 through body-moving, mind-bending electronic transmissions.

Let the Bass Fuck You Up is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Bandcamp.

Review by Amelia Vandergast